Linux Engineer Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Linux Engineer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Linux Engineer salary in Buckinghamshire is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 94 90
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 2 3 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.15% 0.31% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.33% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 11
10th Percentile £72,000 £52,000 -
25th Percentile £75,000 £55,000 £36,174
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +26.32% +31.03%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £56,250
90th Percentile £88,000 - £57,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Buckinghamshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 1,207 902 1,074
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.42% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 764 395 635
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £56,509 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.52% +7.64% -4.55%

Linux Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Linux Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Linux Engineer job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Linux Engineer
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in Buckinghamshire.

Salary distribution trend for Linux Engineer job vacancies in Buckinghamshire

Linux Engineer
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Engineer in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Linux Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Linux Engineer
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
High Wycombe -4 1 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Milton Keynes - 1 £90,000 -
Linux Engineer
South East

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire

For the 6 months to 11 January 2026, Linux Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Buckinghamshire region featuring Linux Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Korn
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Packer
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Linux Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Testinfra
General
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk